Word: stopgaps
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...traditionalist Portugal, voters and politicians alike could not help being tantalized by the choice of Pintassilgo as the stopgap Premier charged with forming an interim government to prepare for early elections this fall. The country has been without a government since early June when a reformist Cabinet of political independents headed by Carlos Alberto Mota Pinto resigned under Socialist and Communist censure motions. An independent herself, Pintassilgo has been described as both a "Catholic militant" and a "pure social democrat." As Minister of Social Affairs in the first provisional government following the army-inspired Flower Revolution...
...moment, the biggest problem is a stopgap one: to rescue the boat people immediately. A recently formed Tokyo-based group called Refugees International is urging the U.S. and other countries to provide emergency facilities, such as abandoned government bases, to be used for housing refugees temporarily until permanent homes can be found. Malaysia is asking the U.S. to supply processing centers. Malaysia hopes that Indonesia will provide the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees with an island capable of receiving as many as 200,000 refugees as a processing center. The ASEAN members will ask Western nations to guarantee that...
Having already sent millions of dollars' worth of goods as stopgap relief, in 1948 the U.S. embarked on the Marshall Plan and over the next four years systematically distributed some $12 billion in economic aid to Western Europe?including West Germany. That rescue program, perhaps the most costly humanitarian effort in history, fueled the industrial revival of the country, made Americans highly respected in Germany at the time, and is still vivid in the memory of a grateful older generation...
Cleveland picked up its only run in the ninth when Remy dropped a hopper behind second base that should have been a double play. Dick Drago, who started the eighth in relief of Eckersley and certainly didn't prove his ability as a stopgap, threw a pitch in the dirt to advance the runners to second and third, and Veryzer brough Gary Alexander home with a Texas Leaguer over Remy's outstretched hands...
Some San Joaquin farmers have coped by switching to corn, barley and other salt-tolerant crops, but this is a stopgap measure. Explains William Cerutti, 58, who tried growing walnut trees on his 700 acres: "The roots got down and they started getting to the salt. The tips start drying up, and within two or three years the trees keel over, completely dead...